What we can do in 2023

iainmf · 2023-01-09T09:21:51+00:00

My goal is often 'do more than nothing'. I think people think the bar to entry is much higher than it is. Probably because they want to see a result from their action and they can't see significant results from small actions.

One small thing people can do is encourage these kind of organizations. Write to them, thank then and tell them you like what they are doing.

NeoLosman · 2023-01-09T09:34:14+00:00

Given where we're at in 2023(The MRM is today politically weaker and more irrelevant socially than it's ever been*), let this be the year where we take a cue from dissenters within Environmentalism, by taking a collective step back, and question the foundational beliefs upon which the movement is built https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads.thebreakthrough.org/legacy/images/Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf https://www.npr.org/2005/03/18/4541344/the-death-of-environmentalism https://grist.org/article/werbach-reprint/ There are serious question we must ask ourselves about the way in which we conceptualize "men's issues" and the manner if which we frame them when selling our goals to the public**

*NCFM's national headquarters is a shadow of it's glory days in The 80s, when Hollywood stars and Fortune 500 executives were showing up at their annual soirees. Their local chapters around the nation are doing gritty and heroic work on the ground, helping men in need to help themselves, and they deserve nothing but our respect. They're also to localized and minute to make much impact at the national level. AVFM and HBR(both of which exists solely online)have seen their site traffic decline precipitously since '19, and this shows no sign of reversing. In a series of conversations I had with Mike Buchanan of J4MAB a couple of months ago, he admitted outright that barely anyone who's spoken to is interested in actually getting off their keyboards and knocking on doors out in reality, where it really stands to make a difference, and that he isn't eager to do so either

We're betting on a dead horse to carry us to victory in The Kentucky Derby, if we cling tenaciously to the delusion that The MRM is going to evolve into a powerful sociopolitical force that will improve our fortunes

ShirleyImSeriouss · 2023-01-10T10:32:02+00:00

It annoys me that real activism like this gets 10 upvotes but a picture of a feminist being a b word will get 1000 upvotes. Complaining is far more popular than doing anything.

Dronterz · 2023-01-10T13:55:21+00:00

Thanks for posting this! Really appreciate it :)

shit-zen-giggles · 2023-01-10T22:14:07+00:00

I greatly appreciate your initiative.

Thanks for compilating this list. 🙏

One significant barrier that needs to be addressed/overcome to achieve greater engagement with 'real world orgs' - in my humble opinion - is the prevailing spirit of 'learned helplessness' / demoralization that is present in many members here which is sadly both self full-filling and self-reenforcing.

I don't have a silver bullet, but there is research about which type of messaging gets people (in general) to engage with activist causes.

I think if we (the regulars of this sub) could compile posts that use the above mentioned insights to deliver such messages to the community that might be a managable and worthwhile effort.

Title	What we can do in 2023
Author	CCMF_volunteer
Upvotes	17
Comments	7
Date	January 9, 2023 7:41 AM UTC (3 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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